32nd Economic Outlook Conference

Wed, Feb 3 2021, 8:30am - 12pm

Online

The 32^nd Economic Outlook Conference will be on February 3^rd, 2021. This year’s conference is virtual. Join experts in education, finance and government from the Gatton College of Business and Economics, the Rosenberg College of Law, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis as they discuss the economic outlook for 2021.

Registration is required, but the registration fee has been waived. The deadline to register is February 1^st.
To register, CLICK HERE.

Kevin L. Kliesen, Business Economist and Research Officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, will be the featured speaker of the conference. Mr. Kliesen will discuss the U.S. economy and monetary policy.

The additional speakers for this year's conference include Dr. Michael Clark, Director of the Center of Business and Economic Research and Associate Professor of Economics in the Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky; Dr. Jenny Minier, Professor of Economics in the Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky; and Dr. Melynda J. Price, William L. Matthews Jr. Professor of Law in the Rosenberg College of Law and Professor of African American and Africana Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky.

The Institute's Director, Dr. Charles Courtemanche, will serve as the moderator for this year's conference.

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Speakers

Kevin L. Kliesen Business Economist and Research Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Kevin L. Kliesen is a Business Economist and Bank Officer in the Research Division at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. He joined the Bank in 1988. He holds an M.A. in Economics from Colorado State University.
In his position as a business economist, he analyzes current U.S. macroeconomic and financial market developments and trends for the Bank president and staff economists prior to each Federal Open Market Committee meeting. He also reports on and analyzes economic conditions in the seven states of the Eighth Federal Reserve District. Another important aspect of this position involves speaking to the general public and professional groups about U.S. and Eighth District economic developments. He has written and published extensively and was instrumental in the development of the St. Louis Fed’s Financial Stress Index, the St. Louis Fed’s Price Pressures Measure, and the St. Louis Fed’s Economic News Index.
In addition to his responsibilities at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, he taught part-time for the Department of Economics at Washington University from 2006 to 2013. Professionally, he is a member of the National Association for Business Economics (NABE) and the Association of Christian Economists. In September 2011, he was recognized as a NABE Fellow, one of the organization’s highest honors. In October 2015, he was designated as a Certified Business Economist by the NABE.

Michael Clark Director, Center for Business and Economic Research | Associate Professor of Economics, University of Kentucky

Michael W. Clark is the Director of the Center for Business and Economic Research and an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Kentucky’s Gatton College of Business and Economics. He earned a B.A. in Management and an M.S. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Kentucky. Prior to coming to UK, Dr. Clark was the Chief Economist for the Kentucky Legislative Research Commission. He conducts applied economic and policy research focusing on labor, health, economic development issues. His work has been published in the Journal of Labor Research. He has conducted research for various Kentucky state agencies including the Department of Public Health, the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet, and the Department of Income Support.

Jenny Minier Professor of Economics, University of Kentucky

Jenny Minier is a Professor of Economics in the Gatton College of Business and Economics at the University of Kentucky. Her research is primarily in economic growth and international trade, and has been published in top economics journals including the Journal of Monetary Economics, American Economic Review Papers and Proceedings, and The Review of Economics and Statistics.
Professor Minier was a Fulbright Scholar in Belgium on a research grant in 2012, and has served as a Co-Editor of the Southern Economic Journal and as an economics review panelist for the National Science Foundation. As a faculty member at the University of Kentucky, she has directed the Ph.D. program in Economics for three years and the Center for Business and Economic Research for one year. She was previously on the faculty at the University of Miami (FL). Her Ph.D. is from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and her undergraduate degree is from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota.

Melynda J. Price William L. Matthews Jr. Professor of Law, University of Kentucky

Melynda Price is the William L. Matthews, Jr. Professor of Law in the Rosenberg College of Law and Professor of African American and Africana Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kentucky. Professor Price is the author of At the Cross: Race, Religion and Citizenship in the Politics of the Death Penalty (Oxford University Press, 2015). Her work has been published in both peer-reviewed social science and law journal, newspapers and literary journals. Professor Price joined the UK College of Law as an Assistant Professor in the fall of 2006 after completing the doctorate degree in Political Science from the University of Michigan. She also earned a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law in 2002. Professor Price’s research focuses on race, gender and citizenship, the politics of punishment and the role of law in the politics of race and ethnicity in the U.S. and at its borders. In 2008, she was awarded a Ford Foundation Diversity Postdoctoral Fellowship. Her host institution was the Capital Punishment Center at the University of Texas School of Law. In 2016, she was a fellow in the Program in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University.